OK....lets turn that on its head.
If there are a finite number of points on the earth then:
a) How many are there?
b) What exists between these finite points?
Friday problem...
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OK....lets turn that on its head.
If there are a finite number of points on the earth then:
a) How many are there?
b) What exists between these finite points?
Dammit, don't cut corners lol, he's on the bottom floor.
Someone google it becasue a) i can't be bothered and b) amusingly, i don't actually know the answer
/SLAP
Damn you.
Heres an easy one,
Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not. What am I?
Aero
Are you asking why he's frustrated or why nobody gets in/out of the lift?
A ton.
Talking in terms of the problem in the OP, for me each point would be around a size 10 shoe in size, making it around 12". By my calculations meaning a maximum of 5280 points on a circular mile around the north pole. There would be nothing between these points, as I'd be taking fairy steps
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It's been incorrectly programed.
Talking in terms of the problem in the OP, for me each point would be around a size 10 shoe in size, making it around 12". By my calculations meaning a maximum of 5280 points on a circular mile around the north pole. There would be nothing between these points, as I'd be taking fairy steps
Dammit. You got me.
I'd be taking fairy steps
Do you always walk like this Gilly or just when your near to a pole?
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The answer to the first riddle is an infinitie number of points.
The rationale being that if your starting point is 'anywhere on the earth's surface' and in following the directions still remain on the earth's surface then you are still meet the criteria of being anywhere on the earth's surface and so in effect are at the same place where you started i.e. the earth's surface.
Is this right?
The rationale being that if your starting point is 'anywhere on the earth's surface' and in following the directions still remain on the earth's surface then you are still meet the criteria of being anywhere on the earth's surface and so in effect are at the same place where you started i.e. the earth's surface.
Is this right?
Right answer, wrong reason, because the first line of the riddle stated 'a point on the earths surface', not 'any point on the earths surface'
Technically would you not still be at 'a point on the earths surface'? Not the same point, but you would still be able to describe it as a point on the earths surface
Technically would you not still be at 'a point on the earths surface'? Not the same point, but you would still be able to describe it as a point on the earths surface
I guess so. I think such an argument would be excluded when I said that the answer didnt involve any wordplay...
I guess so. I think such an argument would be excluded when I said that the answer didnt involve any wordplay...
Indeed, but having demonstrably failed to read the thread properly anyway if he'd been earlier he'd have been at least vaguely accurate, rather than patently incorrect.
